"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln

"Lying is done with words and also with silence." Adrienne Rich

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." Demosthenes

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." George Eliot

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." John F. Kennedy

"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain

"A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it." Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth." Mark Twain

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." Virginia Woolfe